CVE-2011-2986

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 5, Thunderbird before 6, SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3, and possibly other products, when the Direct2D (aka D2D) API is used on Windows, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and obtain sensitive image data from a different domain, by inserting this data into a canvas.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+9)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+53)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 5.0; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+75)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-31.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655836
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14497
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-31.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html

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